CORPORATIONS THAT PRODUCE TOXINS THAT CAUSE SYMPTOMS AND ILLNESS -- PROFIT GREATLY
The giant chemical/pharmaceutical companies that produce pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and other chemicals that can make people and animals chronically ill -- also profit from the disorders and illnesses that result from chemical exposures.
Subject: CORPORATIONS THAT PRODUCE TOXINS THAT CAUSE SYMPTOMS AND ILLNESS -- PROFIT GREATLY
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:33:46 -0400
From: Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
CORPORATIONS THAT PRODUCE TOXINS THAT CAUSE SYMPTOMS AND ILLNESS -- PROFIT GREATLY
The giant chemical/pharmaceutical companies that produce pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and other chemicals that can make people and animals chronically ill -- also profit from the disorders and illnesses that result from chemical exposures.
This is not conspiracy theory, but an easily provable fact.
These companies profit from illness because they also produce drugs, veterinary medicines, medical products and imaging technologies, cancer treatment patents, medical devices, and a wide assortment of palliatives. Families with toxin induced illnesses often spend large sums for drugs and treatment.
Below are several chem/pharm company web sites where you can see for yourself quickly and clearly that these companies profit from all sides of the picture.
Dupont makes pesticides but they also make drugs: http://www.dupontpharma.com/ Here is a list of other chemicals and neurotoxins that they produce:
http://www1.dupont.com/NASApp/dupontcom/jsp/products/products/productsMain.j sp
Dow's pesticide products include the organophosphate pesticide Dursban which was banned from yard and garden use last year because of what it does to the developing brain (but EPA allowed it to stay on the market for two more years). http://www.dow.com/products_services/index.html Dow Pharmaceuticals: http://www.dowpharmsci.org/
Monsanto is owned by Pharmacia. The Pharmacia Corporation was created in April 2000 through the merger of Pharmacia Upjohn with Monsanto Company and its G.D. Searle unit. Pharmacia employs 59,000 people worldwide and has research, manufacturing and administrative sales operations in more than 60 countries. http://www.pharmacia.com/About/Index.asp Monsanto,(owned by Pharmacia http://www.monsanto.com
Do you take Bayer aspirin? Did you know that they also make other drugs, pesticides, chemicals? Bayer chemicals: http://www.chemicals.bayer.de/suchen_sel_en.cfm Bayer pharmaceuticals: http://www.pharma.bayer.com/ More on Bayer: http://www.lionbioscience.com/eng/press/releases/98.htm http://www.infoindia.com/bo/iw/id00102.html http://www.bayer.com/en/index_en.html
Aventis, medical, pharmaceutical: Aventis, "crop science", pesticides, herbicides, etc: http://www.cropscience.aventis.com/products/products.htm http://www.aventis.com Aventis was launched in December 1999 through the merger of Hoechst AG of Germany and Rhône-Poulenc SA of France. http://www.aventis.com/main/0,1003,EN-XX-9410-37300--,FF.html
Many of these huge transnationals have merged with each other. For example, Cibageigy, Sandoz and other multinationals merged to become Novartis. Standard and Poor's Stock Exchange profile on Novartis: http://www.advisorinsight.com/pub/maccess/nyse/nvtsy_66987v_profile.htm Novartis pharmaceuticals, seeds, genetic engineering: Novartis owns Syngenta -- produces pesticides, herbicides, etc: http://www.novartis.com and http://www.syngenta-us.com/ Novartis transnational: http://www.transnationale.org/fiches/70.htm
"Astra Zeneca, will be the world's biggest maker of fungicides, second largest herbicide and insecticide producer, and third in the seed sector." http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/media/press_releases/00_11_13text.htm AstraZeneca, pharmaceuticals: http://www.astrazeneca.com/Products/ Astra Zeneca drug products: http://www.astrazeneca.com/AboutUs/Key_facts.htm
BASF-fungicides, herbicides, pesticides: http://www.basf.de/en/produkte/gesundheit/pflanzen/products/ BASF - pharmaceuticals: http://www.basf.de/en/produkte/gesundheit/nahrung/
Merck is known widely as a pharmaceutical company http://www.merck.com/ and does the best job of all of the chem/pharm companies in hiding the pesticide and industrial chemical side of its business. Merck Research Company; Applications to Register Pesticide: http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/1996/July/Day-10/pr-796.html Merck produces chems and precursors for pesticides and other neurotoxins. Merck is also a member of the American Chemical Manufacturers Assoc.
Merck Chemicals for Industrial Applications - Listed in alphabetical order: http://www.merck-ti.de/tabelle/cia_tabelle.htm "Our broad range of Chemicals for Industrial Applications is widely used in many fields of production within the chemical and technical industries." http://www.merck-ti.de/set_cia.html More on Merck: See the second paragraph at the Novartis web site http://www.pmac.net/novartis.htm that says:
"The merger of Ciba and Sandoz in 1996 and the acquisition of Merck's agrochemical business in 1997 (Agrow No 280, p 1) presented Novartis with a 'once in a lifetime opportunity' to reassess the company's insecticide portfolio, says John Atkin, head of insecticides at Novartis. A further spur was the rapidly changing insecticide market..."
Dow Chemical, Bayer AG, Novartis and Astrazeneca: Federal Trade Commission Clears Combination of Novartis AG's And Astrazeneca's Agricultural Chemical Businesses --Divestitures to Bayer AG and Dow Agrosciences Will Ensure Continued Competition http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/11/astrazeneca.htm
Article by the Wall Street Journal: Pesticide Firms Testing Products on Humans companies: A.G. Bayer, Novartis AG,and Amvac Chemical Corp., a unit of American Vanguard Corp. http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/srr/Alliance/novartis/humans.htm
Confusing: Yes it is. see this: [PDF] www.rafi.org/web/docus/pdfs/masterseed2000.pdf Syngenta (Novartis) Switzerland --Novartis and AstraZeneca merged. The Seed Giants Who Owns Whom?
AMVAC makes the insecticide NALED a/k/a DIBROM, and nineteen other products. AMVAC Chemical Company is owned by American Vanguard Corporation, which makes herbicides, pesticides. A major portion of its revenues comes from selling its specialty chemicals to the pharmaceutical industry. It is also in the business of "environmental remediation" and "toxic waste management." (They profit from pollution that they then get paid to help clean up). http://www.thestandard.com/companies/dossier/0,1922,271462,00.html
AMVAC's brother subsidiaries include, GemChem, Inc. and Environmental Mediation, Inc. Environmental Mediation is just one of many examples, of how chemical companies develop subsidiary businesses that are in the toxic cleanup business after causing the problem to exist in the first place.
AMVAC's subsidiary brother GemChem according to its web site is: "... committed to exceeding industry standards as a national chemical distributor. In addition to representing AMVAC as its domestic sales force, GemChem also sells into the cosmetic, nutritional and pharmaceutical markets."
AMVAC's brother Environmental Mediation, Inc. provides clients with: "complex investigative and remedial activities. With... core expertise in the areas of hazardous waste, air toxics, and water quality..."
Environmental Mediation, Inc. offers its clients expertise in:
Issue Analysis Strategic Planning Government Relations Regulatory Strategy Environmental Consulting Public Affairs
American Home Products pharmaceuticals and veterinary medicines: http://www.amvac-chemical.com/investor_page/Subsidiaries/subsidiaries.htm American Cyanimid is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Home Products -- see paragraph five: http://www.ahp.com/product.asp
"American Cyanamid is a major manufacturer of crop protection chemicals--herbicides and insecticides--widely used in commercial agriculture to protect growing crops from weed infestation and insect damage. The company's principal place of business is in Parsippany, New Jersey. On November 21, 1994, it became a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Home Products Corp. In 1995, American
Cyanamid sold its products to over 2500 retail dealers located throughout the United States."
And paragraph nine: http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/biologie/b_online/ppigb/company.htm
Chemical Business Research -- Click on: "Code "C4": Cancer Opportunities in the New Millennium" http://ecom.sric.sri.com/CBRD/Public/Staff/
Did you know that thousands of toxic chemicals are impregnated into products that we come in intimate contact with every day --items such as clothing, furniture, paper, building materials, pillows, pillow feathers, mattresses, foods, cosmetics, lotions, soaps, ink, carbonless paper, carpeting, wallpaper, adhesives, food colorings, pet products, fragrances, laundry products, household cleaners, air "fresheners" and even animal feed?
Best Regards, Ashley Hotz
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